Re: Bah!

2001-05-12 Thread Chris Ball
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:04:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I've been made redundant. Anyone want an Evil Programmer? Sorry to hear that, David. Same story over here.. I'm on notice at the moment. I'm looking for another job working with Perl during the Summer (mid-June to mid-September,

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Philip Newton
David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv I was going to post I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it as a joke, but when I tried to open the PDF version using the Acrobat plug-in in Netscape, I got an internal error occurred and some of the letters were missing.

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv I was going to post I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it as a joke, but when I tried to open the PDF version using the Acrobat plug-in in Netscape, I

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread James Powell
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:22:07AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv I was going to post I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it as a joke, but when I

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv I was going to post I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it as a joke, but when I tried to open the PDF version using the Acrobat plug-in in Netscape, I

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:18:22AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv I was going to post I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it as a joke, but when I

RE: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:18 AM [evildave's cv] I've put plain-text and HTML versions up as well now. Bow down before the awesome power of TeX! Do you write it in raw Tex/LaTeX, or do you generate that from some other format (like, perhaps, XML)?

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:22:45AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Do you write it in raw Tex/LaTeX, or do you generate that from some other format (like, perhaps, XML)? I'd be interested in seeing the intermediate stages. Ahh, now that would be telling :-) Oh alright then, I used lyx to

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:22:47AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: I find that pdftotext (part of xpdf) does a remarkably good job of letting you know what a pdf file has to say, without bothering with all that tedious formatting... ;-) I particularly like the way it turns 'film-making' into

RE: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:57 AM On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:22:45AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Do you write it in raw Tex/LaTeX, or do you generate that from some other format (like, perhaps, XML)? I'd be interested in seeing the

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 10 May 2001, David Cantrell wrote: thinks has anyone done TeX goodness with Template Toolkit? See the latest post to the TT mailing list: http://www.template-toolkit.org/pipermail/templates/2001-May/000931.html Later. Mark.

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:22:45AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Do you write it in raw Tex/LaTeX, or do you generate that from some other format (like, perhaps, XML)? I'd be interested in seeing the intermediate stages. For my writing these days, I do SGML - tex ( - pdf | - dvi -

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Steve Keay
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:04:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I've been made redundant. Anyone want an Evil Programmer? http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv funky server set up: [steve@webcache steve]$ telnet www.cantrell.org.uk 80 Trying 195.149.50.61... Connected to

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:05:19PM +0100, Steve Keay wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:04:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I've been made redundant. Anyone want an Evil Programmer? http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv funky server set up: [steve@webcache steve]$ telnet

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Robert Price
At 01:22 PM 5/10/01 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:05:19PM +0100, Steve Keay wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:04:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I've been made redundant. Anyone want an Evil Programmer? http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv funky server set

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:38:10PM +0100, Robert Price wrote in response to little ol' me: It's cv20010510.pdf. I s'pose I should update my funky-skillo redirection thing. I must remember to start calling symlinks that. It sounds far more impressive. Naah, it's not just a symlink. I

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 13:37 10/05/01 +0100, you wrote: Naah, it's not just a symlink. I have a custom 404 handler which looks for pages similar to what you asked for based on a small database of things which may have changed. I haven't updated it recently, but will do. I'll make it so that requests for

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: At 13:37 10/05/01 +0100, you wrote: Naah, it's not just a symlink. I have a custom 404 handler which looks for pages similar to what you asked for based on a small database of things which may have changed. I haven't updated it recently, but

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:43:39PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: At 13:37 10/05/01 +0100, you wrote: Naah, it's not just a symlink. I have a custom 404 handler which looks for pages similar to what you asked for based on a small database of things which may have changed. I haven't